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| THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta anr! Georgia: Fair today and tomorrow. VOL. X. NO. 254. ffl MARINES HEM 11 SAILFOR 8881 U. S. Jackies to Enlarge Force Now at the Guantanamo \' Naval Station. // WASHINGTON May 23.—Five hun dred marines were ordered to sail from the League Island navy yard, Philadel phia. on the Prairie today, to join the ' force now .at the 1 nited States naval 'station at Guantanamo. Cuba The 'orc® is under th® command of Colonel .1. Moses, U. S. JI C. It was officially announced by the government that Estenoz and Yvonet, two chief leaders of the rebellious ne groes. had asked for a conference with the government and that it had been refused. President vjomez says he will accept nothing but unconditional sur render. from the negroes. Senor Lare do, secretary of state, declared today that th® revolt would be crushed out before night. The order was issued by Secretary of the Navy Meyer; acting on a. request from th® state department. Rush or ders also were issued today to naval station® along the Atlantic coast to hold ell marines in readiness for Immediate mot em®nt Wireless orders were sent from Key West tn the gunbots Nashville and Pa ducah. now at Guantanamo, to clear for action and place themselves in position to protect American interests at that point. Today's movement of marines followed closely on the receipt of dis turbing dispatches from Guantanamo, which stated that 3.000 a>m®d negroes are matching toward the United States reservation, pillaging and burning as they go. A number of important Amer ican interests in the neighborhood of , Guantanamo and Santiago already have made representation to the department that th r ir property Is being seized and * _w uT'*Tives "f their employees endangered 'and hav requested that the government > J of th" I nited Stater provide adequate protection for' them. Washington Reports Inflame Cubans HA' ANA. May 23.—Reports from Washington that the United States is again considering intervention in Cuba because of conditions which have fol lowed the negro uprising caused in tense feeling throughout this city to day President Gomez, in a public ( statement, denied that tin* situation has gotton beyond the <’uban govern ment. He declared that lie expected to have the revolt in Oriente and Las villa provinces under control within a short time. Rurales have been sent against the armed negro bands and fighting is im minent at several places in the inte rior It is reported that a number of v hites have joined the negroes and are fighting under the banner of the in surgent; Reports Exaggerated. Says Gomez. President Gomez says that lite im portance of the revolt has been exag gerated hi i re®- dispatches published ' in the United States and that the Uni ted States government has been mis led by false information. The rebels nave split up their forces into detach- 1 merits. Th<'-d bands are plundering the . 1 count.' looting and burning sugar ; ii;< nt a f ■•>!•. tn’ driving off live stock. So i •• i> q, $1,000,000. THE SCORE CARD FOR TODAY’S BASEBALL GAME AT PONCEY PARK I 111 I § IZLI a I MTiWI Ml I a ?|f|?1?I T[?l ? P? [t? I!?]W R l |B 7^i g p~ 'Y* •'YOIY Y — ATLANTA EILE If Bailey,lL ... Yz Ganley, rs. .. "^Y”>C'Y^"jC^zC^ ">Cl Iffl GEORGIAN'S WftEDWBcm ■ l+W Hemphill, cf. ~\z y>" Yz ~ < y - t> Walsh, ss. ... y y y y - ] V | Alperman, 3b, <S ~<> <Y YY<Y ~y ~y . SOUTHERN Jacobsen, cf. <*>- <> <X > -\> ~<> ~<>Y> I East, 2b Y><Y LEAGUE pauiet, lb. ... Y iYY^i 11YYYY | O'Dell, lb. .. <Y -<Y Y>YY Y> <>HY> Y > Ky-PPy Y> I OfiADC PAOh Gardena, 3b. <Y <> <> Y> <> Y> ~5- “C> -Y -<S- I ouUnt ußnu Donahue, c. .. Y>—' Dunn, c. .... <>-Y>Y>-<S--<S--<Y-Y>-<Y -<YzY-<Y Miller, p. ... z\ -<Y- -zY- -zS- -zS- -zY zY- -zY -Y YzYLzY Cavet, p ZzY zkJ-zY _zY -<Y -<Y -<Y -zY -<Y -zY+ Ya . X YYYYj YyXEX--j- mobile y YgYcyc ._ yy <Y Y> <>Y> zY <> ~?>- - Illi Atlanta . T.t.i ,nfr » wording to A-'t cf Congress, in the year 1877, by A. Q. Spalding <fc Bros .In the office of the Librarian of Congress, st Washington, D. CL Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by A- G. Spalding A Bros., tn the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, v itolen Bates :• Sacrifice Hits Sacrifice Flies Stolen Bases Sacrifice Hits .... ... Sacrifice Flies • . Twobase Hit* Three-base Hits Homa Runs••»•... AT PONCEY PARK Two-ba»e Hits • -—• Three-b.se Hit, , Home Run. . .. • Dcuhls Flays Triple Play. Number of Innings Pitched. By Double Play, ... - Triple Playa . Number of InnisMts Pitched By Eue Hits. Off .... Legal At Bata Scored Asainrt Each Pitcher c«. GAME AT 3:30 P. M. Off : . Legal At Bata Scored Againat Each Pitcher Struck Out By Bases on Ballgi Off Wild Pitches Struck Out By . “-r.- ... . Bases on BaHs. Off - Wild Pitches ... .. u * Hit Bateman * Passed Balls .... * Tune of Game. ...... Uaivves .........• . 4 MAY 13 I Hit Batatnaxi _.•*.•• • *»• ■■ - .... Pawed Balls Tima of Gnaw VntDiref.a...«.*e. ...».* t »tbM»44»«44»4 The Atlanta Georgian J Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results HOPKINS' BOY is million DOLLAR 1181 Rich Atlantan Plans to Leave His Fortune to Youngster Mamed tor Him. Atlanta is to have a million-dollar baby The suit brought against Russell Hop kins, of Atlanta and New York, by the grandmother of Mrs ETopkins, may bring about a change in family arrangements and send little Josephine Lawrenep Hop kins, the “million-dollar baby." back to her father and mother And nox\ that trouble has arisen between rhe younger that John Randolph Hopkins, 2d. who is generation and the elder, it is promised lust a year old. will be another 'million dollar baby, and a rival of his sister, for Dr. J. R Hopkins, of Atlanta, the baby's grandfather. sa\ > his will will provide for his young namesake Dr. Hopkins refused to take seriously the charges made by Mrs. Lawrence > es- against his son. Russell, former Atlantan and consul representing Panama here, who eloped several years ago with beautiful Vera Segrist. fled up the Hudson with her on his yacht and married her despite the objections ol old Mt 'iw fence and his wife, grand parents of the bride. Dr Hopkins believes that Mrs Lawrence lias been deceived h\ attorneys or others into making charges against her granddaughter's husband, and H con fident that everything will be straight ened out. Russell and Wife Both Jim Dandies. ‘ Russell is all right, ’ he said He was talking to a reporter on the •hady ve randa of hie home at Peachtree and Baker street “Russell may be a high roller, but that's his business, and I’ve never heard anybody >ay he was any thing but a good fellow and straight as a die. Ill's wife is all right, too. Russell s a jim-dandy, and his wife's a jim-dandy They don't have to wheedle money out of Mrs. Lawrence or anybody else ;< long as I've got a red. and I'm not hntl-.c by a long sight. “You know little Josephine. Russell baby girl, is living with her great-grand mother. Mrs. Lawrence The ha by is worth a million or more, left her by Dr. Law - fence, and the old lady is very fond of the child I don't know what arrange ment will be made nnw that Mrs. Law rence has fallen out with Russell May be he will take the baby home with him. She was never legally adopted by Mrs. Lawrence, you know She just lived with the old lady “I Guess He'll Get Everything.” “But sire won’t be the only million dollar baby' in the Hopkins family Look at this picture. That's young John Ran dolph Hopkins, the second. They named him for me. He’s a year oh! now, and he's a jim-dandy. I guess he’ll have ev erything I’ve got when my time conies. I haven't any children but Russell, you know. The little girl has a fortune of her own, so 1 guess the boy will get mine. “You ought to see Russell’s home up the Hudson. It's the pride of the river. No. he doesn't keep his zoo any more, it outgrew’ the place and I persuaded him to give it up. But he has a yacht and motor cars and everything else to make him and his wife happy. Why shouldn't they ? “Yes, Russell has a business. He suc ceeded to several enterprises which Dr. Lawrence left He doesn't fritter-away his time. Certainly, he’s a free spender, but he has it to spend. He isn’t a bad boy Never gave me any trouble He just likes to have a good time, and I guess he has it. You can't make any of his Atlanta friends think he has done any thing wropg.’’ UNCLE TRUSTY! Copyright. 1912, by International News Service. /Yoij 4ReV\ ~ 15 -stepped \ 1— You CANT W / 6A9XM ‘ <x-sa. -ft- ph 1 ’MVMi ra ~ ' VriHiam. while ;on and Theodore are scrapping about who shall drive the ear. I will continue to hold the wheel, according to nu usual custom--and I may mention incidentally that if 1 get real, mad I'm liable to put both of you out on the roadside and take Charlie on as a chauffeur! He has a natural inclination to work for me. and his whiskers give him an impressive appear ancel Sit up straight. Elihti. and keep your arms folded!” «SSt Factory Burns at Chicago. Im periling Hundreds in Cells. Guards Prevent Escapes. —1 • HD ’Ai;< May 23. An investigation of i firp which burned the broom fac tory at th r> Bridewell and threatened th*' lives of hundreds of prisoners early today has been begun b\ the county a uthQrit ios. It has been rumored that the fire was Incendiary and "as part of ya plot for <1 w holesale delivery of prisoners. Th" burned factory was <3O feet from two cell houses in which/1,000 prison ers w.-re confined. Dense volumes of smoke poured through the barred win dows of the cell house. It is the belief of the authorities that the site m.i\ have been started in order to force a transfer of prisoners to an other < ell building and that in the con fusion a break Cor liberty would be made. The prisoners at the Rridewc’r d<» not wear stripes. The prisoneres were ordered by the guards io lie flat on the floor. Careful watch was kept io begin the transfer if it became actually necessary, but (he lire was extinguished before the lives of th prisoneis were actually endan g< red. ATLANTA, GA.. THURSDAY, MAY 23. 1912. Wilbur Wright* King Os Flyers *Dying: Can Live But a Few Hours DAYTON, OHIO. Ma; 23.—Hope for the recovery of JVilbur Wright, aviator and Inventor, who is ill with typhoid fever at hla horn® here, was practically abandoned today. His brother Orville said: "There is not more than one chance in a thousand for my brother io re cover. th® doctors say. and we fear that h® ian not last until night," QUAKE 4.000 MILES AWAY SHOWN BY SEISMOGRAPH WASHINGTON, May 23.—The seis mograph at the Geor-etown universi ty regis'°red the movement of an earthquake last nignt about 4,000 miles distant from this city. It began at 9:50 o’clock and lasted until 11;,22 o’clock. The heaviest shock occurred at 10:36 o’clock. INDICTED ATHENS BANKER MAKES A BOND OF $5,000 ATHENS. GA.. May 23.—John W. Griffin, president of the defunct Ath ens Trust and Banking Company, has made bond of $5,000 for his appearance at th® next term of the superior court. He was indicted by the Clarke county grand jury, charging him with viola tion of the state banking laws. ACTION 10011 ON Gill PLANT Finance Committee Expected to Move at Last to Avert Menacing Situation. "If the members of the finance com mittee feel that this garbage disposal proposition is too big a matter for them to act on finally, let them refer it to council without recommendation. A special meeting of council can be called and we can decide it there," said a prominent member of council and a member of the finance committee today. It is expected, however, that the. finance committee will take final action at its meeting this afternoon. W. If. Sawyer & Sons and the. Forsyth Cre matory Company, both of Atlanta, will submit new propositions. But the sen timent of a majority of the finance committee is to recommend the propo sition the board of health urges—the $440,000 bid.of the Destructor Company of New York. W. H. Sawyer & Sons will submit a bid to build a reduction plant which will separate all the valuable parts of the garbage for $247,500. The Forsyth Crematory Company will offer to bulid a 250-ton capacity Incinerator for $50,- 000. Members of the board of health have already considered both of these propositions. They say Expert Hering has.recommended the high-priced plant with the electric plant atid water pump as the best plan for the city, and that, they have been convinced that h® is right. Peevish Ex-Officer Shoots at Chinese Premier Five Times PEKIN. May 23.—While President Yuan Shi Kai w as holding a .conference with Premier Tang Shao Yi and a nuin_ ber of other officials in the government house today, Chang Tine Ling, a dis gruntled former office holder who had been ousted from his position, entered Ibe room and, drawing a revolver, fired five shots at the premier. Ail the shots missed. Chang was overpowered and arrested. PLEASANT WEATHER FOR REST OF WEEK PROMISED Indications now ar® that the remain der of the week w ill be clear and pleas ant, with practically no change in the temperature. For tonight and tomorrow, which is close enough for the weather man to make a definite prediction, there will be no change, in the weather, CLUB WOMEN'S SPEECHES LIMITED TO ONE MINUTE NEWARK, N. J., May 23.—With the annual meeting of the Associated Wom an’s Clubs the-toastmistress, Mrs. Wil liam S. Allen, ruled that nobody should speak longer than one minute. EIGHT-LEGGED FISH EATS OUT OF MASTER’S HAND SAN DIEGO. May 23. —"Steve" Ghio. a fisherman, has captured an ocean freak. The creature has eight legs, teeth like a dog. dorsal fins and scales lik® a fish and it eats potatoes out of Ghio’s hand. —i ■■ ■ i lEXTRAj PRIC 1 !?- O® Trains, FIVE CENTS. * AVI’ In Atlanta, TWO CENTS. RICH CLUB MEN IN NET INAUTO WAR Walter Candler and Stewart Witham Are Among the Nine Men Accused, —■■■■ , ■ VIGOROUS FIGHT ON LAW VIOLATORS BEGUN Banker’s Son in Mix-Up With- Police—Mother Comes to His Rescue. , Two of Atlanta’s wealthiest young clubmen. Walter Candler, aon of Asa G. Candler, and Stewart Witham, son of W. S. Witham, the banker, ■ with seven other autoists and chauffeurs, will appear before Recorder Broyles this afterffodn to ajiswer to charges of violating th* city automobile ordi nances. These cases mark the opening of a vigorous crusade started by Chief Beavers against violators of the auto laws. Young Candler is accused of exceed ing the speed limit as he was driving out Edgewood avenue on his way to his home In Inman Park. Policemen McDaniel. Williams and Robertson, who have been specially detailed by Chief eßavers to curb speeding auto ists, made the case. They say Can dler whizzed through the street at a lively clip. He was served with a copy of charges, citing him to appear in po lice court this afternoon. Many Complaints Made to Chief. All of the remaining cases, with the exception of that against young With am. were made by these same officers and charge speeding. The offending autoists are S. E. Bas sett, 54fi Peachtree street; Herbert Slltzer, 46 Ponce DeLeon avenue; F. L. Marco, Majestic hotel; E. .1. Akrtdge, J. G. Burkhardt, 358 Washington street; O. L. Chafin. 137 Mills street, and John Griffin. 16 Savannah street. Chief Beavers said today that he ha.® received many complaints of late regarding violations of the auto laws, particularly as to speeding and allow ing muffler cut-outs to remain open. “These laws must be enforced, and it seems that the only way to do this is to make cases." said the chief. ‘‘Time and time again we have warned auto ists that these laws must be observed, but these warnings have beetj futile. We don't want to be hard on autoists, but the safety of pedestrians and of the autoists themselves demands that the utmost care be used in the driving of cars through our crowded streets." Interest centers in the trial of young Witham, who Is accused of interfering with Policeman Welchel in Peachtree street, in front of the Arargon hotel. 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